South Florida journalist among missing in Libya

South Florida-based Getty Images photographer Joe Raedle and two Agence France-Presse journalists have been reported missing in Libya while on assignment covering hostilities there.

Raedle, 45, a former Sun Sentinel staff photographer with years of experience covering wars and disasters in global hot spots, has been missing since Saturday. That day he traveled into the eastern Tobruk region, along with AFP reporter Dave Clark, 38, and Roberto Schmidt, 45, another photographer with South Florida ties.

Raedle is married to Nancy San Martin, interactive editor of The Miami Herald. She said Sunday that she last spoke to her husband on Friday, after he and the others checked into a hotel in Tobruk.

Clark and Schmidt had informed the agency in an e-mail Friday of their plans to meet with opponents of the regime of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi and talk with refugees fleeing the battles between rebels and loyalists.

Raedle was part of the group making the 22-mile trip.

San Martin said she was concerned about her husband's whereabouts, "but he's been in these situations before. He knows how to deal with it."